Characterization and identification of Borrelia isolates as Borrelia valaisiana in Taiwan and Kinmen islands

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1003-1009

  Masuzawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Pan, Ming Jeng ^b   Kadosaka, Teruki ^c   Kudeken, Midori ^a   Takada, Nobuhiro ^d   Yano, Yasuhiro ^d   Imai, Yasuyuki ^a   Yanagihara, Yasutake ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; 5S 23S rRNA intergenic spacer; Borrelia valaisiana; Flagellin; Lyme disease; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

FLAGELLIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; GENE SEQUENCE; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH KOREA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAIWAN;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; FLAGELLIN; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURIDAE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RATS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TAIWAN;

APODEMUS AGRARIUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; MUS; PROKARYOTA; RATTUS LOSEA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0034533130     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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